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Mile End serves a 70-layer blini of epic proportions

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  • The Montreal-style Jewish deli opened in 2010. Smoked meats, latkes, smoked salmon, chopped liver and pickles are typical menu items. But executive chef Anthony Nassif was messing around in the kitchen and came up with ...
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  • It took Nassif about 30 minutes to build it, not counting the extra time it took for his prep cook to make the 35 blini, one at a time, in a saute pan.
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  • Blini, sour cream, scallions, chives, pickled fennel and onions, two types of pickles, smoked salmon, whitefish salad, smoked and peppered mackerel, hard-boiled eggs, smoked sable, bacon, red onions, dill and ikura salmon caviar.
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  • Nassif said all the ingredients that go into the 70-layer blini cake are Mile End staples. But the only thing they don't usually have on hand are the most important to the dish: the blini. How did Nassif come up with the idea? Two people inspired him. His friend posted an Instagram photo of a 35-layer chocolate crepe cake that he'd made. Then, one of the Mile End delivery guys (who is Russian) brought caviar and extra large blini in one day. Then, bam!
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  • Nassif said the process of making one of the 70-layer blini is so intensive that he plans to make only one per weekend. But he thinks he may have also
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  • It takes a quart of sour cream to make it.
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  • Nassif said he envisions it
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  • just look at this thing. Nassif calls it a “beast.”” data-id=”111515509″ data-link=”https://amnewyork.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/23622_image.jpg” class=”wp-image-1.11515509″/>
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  • That's a lot of smoked fish and blinis.
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  • Crumbled bacon is a must for any brunch item.
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  • Each 70-layer blini cake is cut into slices, like pieces of pie.
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One of the most decadent brunch items in the city is now on the menu at Mile End in Brooklyn.

The special is ridiculous in size and outlandish in theory but, somehow, it’s a reality.

It’s called a 70-layer blini and it’s made with nearly everything the restaurant is known for, including all manner of smoked fish.

Check out this gigantic, cake-like menu item. If you’re hungry, you might get hangry. #Sorrynotsorry.

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